Process of applying labels to canned goods



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Patented July 31,

- UNITELT 1,463,265 PATEN oFric WILLIAM CLIFTON 'Aancr M NTAGUE B Y, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA.

PROCESS or APPLYING LABELsTo CANNED Goons. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CLIFTON HART, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Montague Bay, in the State of Tasmania,rCommonwealth of Australia,

have invented a certain new and useful P'roc ess of Applying Labels to Canned Goods,

of which the following is a specification/ This invention relates to a process wherein labels are applied to containers of goods such as food substances by impressing or tainer.

indenting the label and description on such containers. V 1 I o Cans or receptacles into which preserved foods'are put up .for sale or; transport are usually covered by alabel that is printed' on paper and affixedto the body of the con- It: is to avoid the preparation of these afiixed labelsjthat my invention has been devised, according to which the-plate that is to form the body of the can is first sub jected to pressure in dies to formthe label and description in the plate. This may be done in a way to provide type high surfaces or the impression can be made in the metal plate by indenting the label therein. The can is then treated with coloring matter according as to whether the impression is type high or indented. V

The plates are placed in the dies flat and after the impression has been made therein are formed into cans and filled with the goods in the usual way. Such cans, whenused for domestic use, need not be covered all over with lacquer, as when same are to.

be exported, and in this case and when the label or mark and description thereon s in type high characters, I pass; the same over a colored surface such as an inky pad or band and thus apply a color to such type high-surfaces while the body will remain bright.

But if the cans are to be exported and the below the can surface, same may be 001- .Application ifiled June 29, 1921. Serial No. 481,367.

ored on thebody,leaving the indented label br ght. In case the cans are for export the whole is lacquered andthe body colored to distinguish from the color of the label which will remain the color of the lacquer.

The goods to which I especially desire to i apply myinvention are those for holding foods such as jam, preserved fruits and the like, and in the case of containers requiring Various descriptions such as the names of the fruit canned, to go with the common label or mark, slip pieces bearing thername of the varietyare made and which are slid into place in the die before impressing the plates.

To provide a bright'and prominent marking upon the cans, I may apply to the cans iinthe coloring process parallel vari-colored strlpesr or rings can the description or'label ofwhich has diesin'relief, the makers of color. Thus, in a fruit been produced by name might come within a red zone oflcolor,

the trade mark in a blue, and the name of the fruit within another zone of color. In

applying the zones of color when the label: 1s indented, the can body' as a whole would the label either left bright or a different color, by immersion of the can priorto applying the stripes.

be treated with the vari-colored stripes and painted with I Instead of the inky pads, the type high surface may be coloredto distinguish from the body by first rolling thecan over a surface on which is a colorless glue or lacquer or other clear sticky substance and-then, be fore the substance "has had time to, dry, the n v can is again rolled over a surfaceon which 1 is a supply of the required color in pow.- dered form. Or if an immersion in colored. lacquer has been first applied to the eontainer, same can be rolled over an} absorbent pad to remove all or mostlof the color from.

the type high surfaces and, thusenable the label -to 'be distinguished from thebody.

Theefi'ect upon'a food containerltreated "in the manner explained with an indented label is very pronounced, for say the whole has been immersed. in a quick drying gold lacquer, andthe body is afterwards again colored, say-purple, the description orlabel and the'two ends will be shown in goldon .a purple ground. If the label be type'high,

the containercould be first immersed .in a 1 purple lacquer and the gold color afterwards applied to the type high label.

I Byineans of the invention, there-fore,- food be labelled with a or trademark that 'is integrel with the bee-L by a process at once clistine tive, ecenomieel and I effective. Having now described my invention What I claim as nev :L11Cl.(lSlI6 to secure by Letters Patent is The process of applyi containers wherein the label is first impressed tyge high in the plate from which 10 the can body is made and forming the can from said plate, the filled can being then passed over veri-colored parallel pads to supply pzirallel stripes or rings'to said type high label.

In testlmons whereof 1 ME my signature.

WILLIAl/l CLIFTON HART. 

